Tianmen
Syllables: Tian·men
Tianmen proper noun: a sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.
Proper noun
Tianmen
- A sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.
- This interaction between popular suspicions and rumors generated by inflammatory literature was clearly noted by Li Hung-chang in connection with the Tienmen, Hupeh, missionary case of 1869.[1963, Paul A. Cohen, China and Christianity: The Missionary Movement and the Growth of Chinese Antiforeignism, 1860-1870, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 303
- Warmly accepted, the challenge was made at the recent national conference on cotton growing held in Tienmen County of central China's Hupeh Province, China's main cotton growing county both in acreage and output.[1977 June 29, “National Cotton Growing Conference Held in Hupeh Province”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 125, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
Forms of Tianmen
| alternative form | Tienmen |
|---|---|
| alternative form | T'ien-men |
| alternative form | T'ien-mên |
Origin of Tianmen
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天門 /天门 (Tiānmén).
Questions about Tianmen
- What does Tianmen mean?
- Tianmen means a sub-prefectural city of Hubei, China.
- What part of speech is Tianmen?
- Tianmen is a proper noun.
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